When I am thrift shopping, I don't always let myself get into record section- I get lost there, and I am usually on a tight time schedule so that I can hit as many stores as possible in one day. But of course, there are those times when I am thrift shopping "off the clock", and I can look through every last item in the store. This record was from an enormous carton at a Goodwill outlet store, and most of the records were in bad condition. I just couldn't resist this one, though- I admit, it was the colors and the font that won me over. I didn't even realize that Perez Prado was the King of the Mambo.
You probably know a Perez Prado song even if his name is not familiar to you- a remake of his "Mambo Number 5" was a huge hit for Lou Bega in 1999 (and apparently also for Bob The Builder in 2001, so says the Wikipedia!).
I play this record constantly. When it finds its way back into the stacks, it soon finds its way out again and I am dropping the needle and bopping around the house. I am hardly doing the mambo, but it feels good! Proof that it is worth digging deep in the vinyl stacks, and yet another example in my record collection where a beat-up, 50 cent record is as beloved to me as a brand new fancy-shmancy record by an artist that I already know and love. Let's keep this good stuff out of the landfill!
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